Joichi Ito

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.